Romantic Cities Of California
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491_9781406767766
Romantic Cities of California By HILDEGARDE HAWTHORNE Illustrated by E. H. SUYDAM D. APPLETON-CENTURY COMPANY INCORPORATED NEW YORK 1939 LONDON THE ART MUSEUM IN BALBOA PARK., SAN DIEGO To all our California friends, old and new, who have helped us to see the various beauty of their State, and have guided us in discovering something of her splendid story, thanks and appreciation from both illustrator and author. Foreword to Possible Readers O. .. that mine adversary had written a book cried Job, a good long while back in the past. He believed that would have given a marvelous opportunity to make matters uncomfortable for that adversary, and to any one writing the particular type of book contained within these covers, it appears likely that Job was right. In writing a book you lay yourself open to, attack, not so much personal, viii Foreword not even from adversaries, but merely from those who know better than you. What book was ever written that did not contain errors, in especial the book that strives to tell the story, or even the mere aspect of a place, a people, a time The errors creep in to hide from the authors eye, let it be ever so searching, only to spring positively yelling from their concealment when a reader opens the book and turns the pages. Mistakes occur, many inadvertent, others apparently intentional certainly you too often know better, and stare amazed, struck with horror, when the Moving Finger points them out. All I can hope is that whatever faults there be in the fol lowing pages are not vital, will give no trouble to any soul. I have tried hard to avoid them, and yet ... and yet I fear me that all the lurking little devils have not been run to earth. At times I have had to choose what seemed to me the likeliest of several different versions of the same event, and once or twice it has been curious to see how some error has been copied and copied through various publications, only in the end to be exposed for what it was. This is excellent only
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